This podcast was recorded on January 28th, 2013.

And welcome everyone to the latest episode of the D&D podcast. I am your host

Mike Robles joining me your three fine-looking gentlemen gentlemen go ahead and

introduce yourselves. I'm Mike Merles the senior manager the D& D&D team. You might know me from my Legends and Lower

columns that show up every Monday on the Wizards website.

And I'm Jeremy Crawford. I oversee development and editing for D&D products and I'm Rodney Thompson I am a

designer on Dungeons and Dragons and I answer the D&D next Q&A every week.

So if you are a fan of this podcast these voices should all be no surprise to you as well as the conversations that we have are going to be of no surprise to you because it's always exciting we always have new stuff and we are always going to be talking about what is coming next especially with

D and D next because we just unleashed in the newest play test the

barbarians who wants to who wants to get a start and talk about the

barbarian well the barbarian appeared in the public play test today but it actually appeared over the weekend at Winter Fantasy which Mike was at.

Yeah, I was there. We did collect playtest feedback for Dini Dini next so people who played at a chance to fill

it a questionnaire and so those are on Greg's desk right now and we had a really

great living forgotten realms interactive that ran a big crowd of people so it was great to see that going on and as usual

things went smoothly and it was a good time but yeah I just kind of wish that well I had work to do and that's why I was

paid to go there so I should complain. But the

but yeah it was a good time I always like going to Fort Wayne people always

really friendly and I don't know Indiana it's like it'll always be linked

with gaming in my mind now it's true I go to to Indiana minutes to go to a game convention. I like that you were like

subtly complaining. It's such a humble brag. Man, I go to a

convention, but I had to work. And so like I had to be surrounded by all

these fans and these awesome people telling me about how good

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